UAE Government and Economy

Uae Government And Economy

306 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

All 306 questions

  1. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Zayed Bridge with the correct year: Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School oā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Zayed Bridge with the correct year: Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October ______ in Baghdad, Iraq, to an upper-class Iraqi family.
  3. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Crossing with the correct year: In March ______, additional bridges opened as part of the wider Sheikh Rashid Corridor development, which was reportā€¦
  4. Which place completes the sentence? The Shiv temple closed in 2024 due to lack of space and was relocated to ______.
  5. Which place completes the sentence? All cargo operations will move to ______ Port by the end of March 2018.
  6. Complete the sentence about Dubai World Cup with the correct year: In ______, the Dubai World Cup was first held at the new Meydan Racecourse on March 27, on all-weather surface known as Tapeta.
  7. Complete the sentence about Meydan Racecourse with the correct year: On February 16, ______, Saffie Osborne became the first female jockey to win a race at Meydan, winning the Lord Glitters Handicap.
  8. Complete the sentence about Zayed National Museum with the correct year: In ______, the Zayed National Museum signed a ten-year contract with the British Museum.
  9. Complete the sentence about Zayed National Museum with the correct year: In June ______, a renewed partnership was announced between the British Museum and Zayed National Museum.
  10. Complete the sentence about Abu Dhabi Book Fair with the correct year: Abu Dhabi hosted the 31st edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair ______ for 7 days at ADNEC Exhibition Grounds.
  11. Complete the sentence about Abu Dhabi Film Festival with the correct year: In October ______, The Guardian published an article about the origins and intent of the MEIFF.
  12. Complete the sentence about Islam in the United Arab Emirates with the correct year: Of the total population, 76.9% are Muslims as of a ______ estimate by the Pew Research Center.
  13. Complete the sentence about Christianity in the United Arab Emirates with the correct year: In spite of this, a ______ study estimated some 200 Christians from a Muslim background, though not all of tā€¦
  14. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In June ______, foundations were laid for the Guru Nanak Darbar.
  15. Complete the sentence about Pakistanis in the United Arab Emirates with the correct year: The ratio of blue-collar Pakistani labour migrating to the UAE has dropped since ______, although the volume oā€¦
  16. Complete the sentence about Zayed University with the correct year: In ______, Zayed University opened admissions for male students.
  17. Complete the sentence about Zayed University with the correct year: In ______, Zayed University received accreditation from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleā€¦
  18. Complete the sentence about American University of Sharjah with the correct year: AUS was granted a license by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in ______ and held its firstā€¦
  19. Complete the sentence about New York University Abu Dhabi with the correct year: The university has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars since its opening in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Al Wahda FC with the correct year: In ______, Al Wahda won their maiden UAE League title with 8 points ahead of their rivals Al Ain.
  21. Complete the sentence about Shabab Al Ahli with the correct year: In ______, the Dubai CSC and Al Shabab merged within Al Ahli, at which point the club renamed itself to Shabab Al Ahli.
  22. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum with the correct year: At its 13th meeting in ______, chaired by Al Maktoum, the members discussed initiatives and proposals for long-termā€¦
  23. Complete the sentence about Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship with the correct year: When founded in ______, it was one of three European Tour events to be staged in the Arabian Peninsula, but at one pointā€¦
  24. Complete the sentence about Sharjah Cricket Stadium with the correct year: In ______, Afghanistan changed their home ground to Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground in Noida, India.
  25. Complete the sentence about Emirates Cricket Board with the correct year: On 21 July ______, UAE cricket took a step towards "full professionalism", with the Emirates Cricket Board granting two-year cā€¦
  26. Complete the sentence about Emirates Cricket Board with the correct year: In June ______, ECB announced the first ever T20 franchise league in UAE, scheduled to start later that year after the T10 touā€¦
  27. Complete the sentence about e& with the correct year: In December ______, Etisalat announced the launch of the Etisalat 4G LTE Network.
  28. Complete the sentence about Dubai Knowledge Park with the correct year: The project was launched in May ______ in liaison with Dubai Knowledge Park.
  29. Complete the sentence about Dubai Knowledge Park with the correct year: DIAC was established in ______ as a university town and a residential free-zone dedicated to higher education by TECOM Group.
  30. Complete the sentence about Dubai Knowledge Park with the correct year: In ______, Institute of Management Technology, Dubai was one of the first universities to set up permanent campus in DIAC.
  31. Complete the sentence about Khalifa Port with the correct year: On 29 October ______ Abu Dhabi Terminals celebrated the handling of 2 million containers at Khalifa Port.
  32. Complete the sentence about Mina Zayed with the correct year: The transfer of Zayed Port's container traffic to the newly developed USā€¦
  33. Complete the sentence about Habshanā€“Fujairah oil pipeline with the correct year: The conceptual design of the pipeline was completed in ______ by Tebodin.
  34. Complete the sentence about Etihad Rail with the correct year: Commercial operations of Stage One commenced in January ______, on time and within budget.
  35. Complete the sentence about Etihad Rail with the correct year: The operator of Stage One was Etihad Rail DB, which was a joint venture between Etihad Rail and Deutsche Bahn, Europe's largest railway oā€¦
  36. Complete the sentence about Dubai Tram with the correct year: The construction of the tramway was resumed in January ______ with 30% of Phase 1 having been completed.
  37. Complete the sentence about Palm Jumeirah Monorail with the correct year: In December ______ the monorail line was suspended until further notice, with the operators citing essential station maintenanā€¦
  38. Complete the sentence about Palm Jumeirah Monorail with the correct year: In ______, day-to-day operations were taken over by the British company Serco.
  39. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As of July ______, the earthworks for the project near Sheikh Zayed Road had commenced.
  40. Complete the sentence about Bluewaters Island with the correct year: The first Madame Tussauds in the Middle East opened in Dubai in September ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Alserkal Avenue with the correct year: Since ______, Alserkal Avenue has been running an art residency program.
  42. Complete the sentence about Dubai Opera with the correct year: The first Emirati singer to appear at Dubai Opera was Hussain Al Jassmi on 10 October ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Zayed Bridge with the correct year: Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Bukhoor with the correct year: By around ______ BCE, incense was being used in Ancient China in religious ceremonies and ritual worship.
  45. Complete the sentence about Oud with the correct year: In ______ Curt Sachs contradicted or refined that idea, saying oud meant flexible stick, not wood.
  46. Complete the sentence about Karak chai with the correct year: Since Starbucks introduced its chai tea latte in ______, chai beverages have become popular at coffee shops across the United States, ofteā€¦
  47. Complete the sentence about Saffron with the correct year: The English word saffron is a borrowing from French, first found in a Middle English text written around ______ as saffran.
  48. Complete the sentence about Zaatar with the correct year: The regulations extended to the West Bank, where in ______ there were reported instances of za'atar plants being confiscated at Israeli checkpā€¦
  49. Complete the sentence about Arabic bread with the correct year: The first mention of the word in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary was in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Manakish with the correct year: In ______, manakish was inscribed to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists as an emblematic culinary practice in Lebanon.
  51. Complete the sentence about Falafel with the correct year: By ______ a falafel shop had been opened in Beirut and from there it spread down the Red Sea coast all the way to Yemen, it had spread west iā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: The word baklava is first attested in English in ______, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish: ŲØŲ§Ł‚Ł„Ų§ŁˆŁ‡ /bɑĖklɑvɑĖ/.
  53. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: Written in ______ in today's Iraq, the cookbook was based on an earlier collection of 9th century Persian-inspired recipes.
  54. Complete the sentence about Kunafa with the correct year: Food historian Daniel Newman cites an ______ cookbook published in Beirut as the earliest documented example of a cheese-filled variant.
  55. Complete the sentence about Kunafa with the correct year: Gustaf Dalman described in ______ knafeh basma made with sweetened cheese between two layers of pastry being made in Sidon and Jerusalem.
  56. Complete the sentence about UAE National Day with the correct year: The seventh emirate, Ras Al Khaimah, was added to the federation on 10 February ______ making it the last emirate to join.
  57. Complete the sentence about Commemoration Day with the correct year: On 19 August ______, the date of Al Dahmani's death was announced as Martyrs Day.
  58. Complete the sentence about Flag Day with the correct year: The Flag Day marks the anniversary of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan becoming the president in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Mother of the Nation with the correct year: The ______ Constitution of Bangladesh declared Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to be "father of the nation".
  60. Complete the sentence about Emirati women with the correct year: As of ______, less than 20% of Emirati women were part of the national labor force.
  61. Complete the sentence about Hassan Sharif with the correct year: Sharif graduated in ______ and set about staging the first exhibitions of contemporary art in the Emirates.
  62. Complete the sentence about Hassan Sharif with the correct year: Hassan Sharif encouraged his brother's idea, and by January ______, the space was ready.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hassan Sharif with the correct year: Sharif's first public exhibition was at Dubai's Central Public Library in ______, showing his early 'Caricature' cartoons.
  64. Complete the sentence about Emirati film with the correct year: In ______, Emirates Film Competition was formed which influenced a generation of Emirati filmmakers to explore the short film format.
  65. Complete the sentence about Emirati film with the correct year: In ______, The Dream became the first Emirati film to be distributed in cinemas across UAE.
  66. Complete the sentence about Emirati film with the correct year: In ______, the second edition of the Gulf Film Festival saw the premiere of two Emirati feature films for the first time.
  67. Complete the sentence about Emirati film with the correct year: Nawaf Al-Janahi's film Sea Shadow was released on 17 November ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Emirati film with the correct year: The first Emirati Science Fiction feature-length film called Aerials was released on 16 June ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Nayla Al Khaja with the correct year: Nayla Al Khaja was born on March 7 ______ and raised in Dubai.
  70. Complete the sentence about Emirati music with the correct year: In June ______, Ihab Darwish became the first Emirati invited to be a voting member of the Grammy Recording Academy.
  71. Complete the sentence about Emirati music with the correct year: Yassin Alsalman, better known by his stage name Narcy, was born in Dubai in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Emirati music with the correct year: In ______ the UAE's only chain music retailer, Virgin Megastores, revealed a chart of the best-selling local acts to entertainment magaā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Hussain Al Jassmi with the correct year: Al Jassmi was born in Khorfakkan in August ______ to an Emirati father and Egyptian mother.
  74. Complete the sentence about Ahlam with the correct year: In ______, Ahlam joined MBC's Arab Idol judging panel, for the inaugural season and the following three seasons.
  75. Complete the sentence about Ahlam with the correct year: In ______, Ahlam joined MBC's Arab Idol judging panel alongside Lebanese singers Wael Kfoury and Nancy Ajram and Egyptian composer Hassan El Shā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about Mohammed Abdu with the correct year: Mohammed Abdu was born on June 12, ______ in Al Shuqaiq, Jazan.
  77. Complete the sentence about Mohammed Abdu with the correct year: In ______, Abdu Othman Al-A'asiri left the family after he fell ill, dying before Mohammed took his first steps.
  78. Complete the sentence about Mohammed Abdu with the correct year: In ______, his mother died, and Mohammed stopped singing altogether.
  79. Complete the sentence about Mohammed Abdu with the correct year: Finally, in ______, he sang at a National Day celebration to an audience amazed at how mature his voice had become; his voice was marveā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Mohammed Abdu with the correct year: The next year saw his official comeback when he sang at the Abha Music Festival in ______, releasing another three albums concurrently.
  81. Complete the sentence about Diana Haddad with the correct year: Haddad's biggest breakthrough came in late ______ when she released her third album Ammanih accompanied with a major hit single of the sā€¦
  82. Complete the sentence about Diana Haddad with the correct year: In ______, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq, which forced Haddad's family to move back to Lebanon.
  83. Complete the sentence about Diana Haddad with the correct year: During her teen years, specifically in ______, Haddad performed in multiple Kuwaiti national events.
  84. Complete the sentence about Diana Haddad with the correct year: For this reason, Haddad enjoyed shooting the song "Yammaya" in the Giza pyramid complex in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Sharjah International Book Fair with the correct year: The book fair debuted in ______ under the guidance and patronage of Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, the UAE Supā€¦
  86. Complete the sentence about Sharjah International Book Fair with the correct year: When the event was launched in ______, it included a small number of publishers and the books were purchased by Sheikā€¦
  87. Complete the sentence about Emirates Airline Festival of Literature with the correct year: In ______, the festival was themed "Face to Face" and about 120 authors were invited for the third Festival wā€¦
  88. Complete the sentence about Emirates Airline Festival of Literature with the correct year: In ______, over 130 authors were attending the seventh festival, that was themed "Wonderland".
  89. Complete the sentence about Dubai Airshow with the correct year: The Dubai Airshow started life as Arab Air in ______ - a small civil aviation trade show which F&E organised at the Dubai World Trade Cā€¦
  90. Complete the sentence about Dubai Airshow with the correct year: The first Dubai Airshow was held in ______ at Dubai Airport, spurred on by substantial Middle East investment in civil and military aviā€¦
  91. Complete the sentence about Dubai Airshow with the correct year: The Dubai Airshow grew from 200 exhibitors and 25 aircraft in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Dubai Airshow with the correct year: In ______ due to the outbreak of the Gulf War, the show was moved from January to November and it had a strong military focus given eveā€¦
  93. Complete the sentence about Dubai Airshow with the correct year: The Dubai Airshow ______ was the fastest-selling in the event's history, 550 companies from 36 countries participated.
  94. Complete the sentence about Arabian Travel Market with the correct year: The event, inaugurated in ______ and was hosted at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
  95. Complete the sentence about Arabian Travel Market with the correct year: The event has been attended by global companies like Google, Mƶvenpick, both sponsors of the ______ edition of the event, Emiraā€¦
  96. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx reintroduction with the correct year: The four oryx donated by King Saud arrived at the Phoenix Zoo in July ______, bringing the population of the "World Herd"ā€¦
  97. Complete the sentence about Dubai Aquarium with the correct year: The aquarium officially opened on November 4, ______, along with the rest of the mall.
  98. Complete the sentence about Dubai Aquarium with the correct year: On February 25, ______, the tank had a leak and the whole aquarium was evacuated.
  99. Complete the sentence about Sharjah Archaeology Museum with the correct year: In ______, the Sharjah Museums Authority assumed responsibility for operating the museum, alongside 16 other museums acrosā€¦
  100. Complete the sentence about Sharjah Maritime Museum with the correct year: The Sharjah Maritime Museum was opened for the first time in Al Mareijah on April 9, ______.

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